The MICC

The Simulation: In all, 50 students will be invited to the project. Participating groups are divided and the members are mixed with students from other universities and nationalities. By that we hope to foster for more intercultural dialogue among the participating students. The case, on which the simulation will be based, will be fictional and submitted to the participants right after their admission along with their team partners contact details. The teams will be assigned issues and roles (judges, defence, prosecution, press) and be asked to prepare and submit preliminary papers with their pleadings/judgements/texts. Each team member will have a total of about 15 minutes to argue their case. The members of the press team report on what’s going on in the trials.

The Trainings: During the trainings the students get the chance to prepare for their pleadings and train their presentations with professional trainers that will help them to get ready for their performance in the simulation. The trainings will include legal reasoning, writing and preparation of the final pleadings as well as hints and exercises in the field of rhetoric and presentation. The press team also works with a professional trainer. They will write articles for a newspaper that will be produced in Krzyżowa. It might be possible to prepare film material.

Extra Activities: But that, of course, is not all. We will offer side activities so all participants get the chance to get to know Krzyżowa and the estate’s history as well as each other a little better. In addition, during the projects professionals from the field of international criminal law, human rights and humanitarian law will be invited to discuss current issues and give insight into their experiences and workday routine.